Technical Manager
UK

The median Technical Manager salary in the UK is £57,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 396 539 530
Rank change year-on-year +143 -9 -16
Permanent jobs requiring a Technical Manager 631 505 979
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.64% 0.48% 0.64%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.68% 0.53% 0.66%
Number of salaries quoted 506 392 562
10th Percentile £41,250 £46,250 £47,275
25th Percentile £47,500 £51,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £67,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.81% - +12.50%
75th Percentile £67,887 £80,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £97,375 £132,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -19.23% +8.33% +9.09%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 92,756 95,826 148,057
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.61% 91.56% 96.06%
Number of salaries quoted 66,592 60,202 85,221
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,550 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.42% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%

Technical Manager
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Technical Manager in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Technical Manager in the UK

Technical Manager
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Technical Manager.

Salary trend for Technical Manager in the UK

Technical Manager
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Technical Manager over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Technical Manager in the UK

Technical Manager
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Technical Manager within the UK over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +173 591 £57,500 -14.81% 315
UK excluding London +161 456 £52,500 -19.23% 239
London +51 150 £70,000 - 91
Work from Home +13 141 £57,500 -17.20% 71
South East +92 123 £53,000 -18.46% 71
North of England +95 118 £51,250 -26.20% 43
Midlands +68 91 £55,000 -13.39% 46
North West +39 75 £50,000 -25.62% 29
West Midlands +78 63 £57,500 -8.00% 32
South West +37 62 £50,000 -4.76% 31
East of England +27 42 £50,000 -7.86% 42
Yorkshire +104 36 £52,500 -24.40% 12
East Midlands -5 28 £50,000 -23.08% 14
Scotland -71 8 £45,000 -29.83% 6
North East +4 7 £55,000 -30.16% 3
Wales +14 5 £60,000 +22.45% 11
Isle of Man - 4 - -
Northern Ireland +33 3 £57,500 - 3

Technical Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 27 April 2024, Technical Manager job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads featuring Technical Manager in the job title.

1 154 (24.41%) Project Management
2 152 (24.09%) Social Skills
3 121 (19.18%) Agile
4 103 (16.32%) Finance
4 103 (16.32%) Degree
5 95 (15.06%) Problem-Solving
6 86 (13.63%) Azure
7 83 (13.15%) Microsoft
8 79 (12.52%) Project Delivery
9 74 (11.73%) Continuous Improvement
10 65 (10.30%) Stakeholder Management
11 51 (8.08%) Microsoft 365
12 50 (7.92%) Mentoring
13 46 (7.29%) Cybersecurity
13 46 (7.29%) SaaS
14 45 (7.13%) Legal
15 42 (6.66%) Windows
15 42 (6.66%) Roadmaps
16 41 (6.50%) Time Management
17 39 (6.18%) Analytical Skills
18 37 (5.86%) Service Delivery
18 37 (5.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
19 35 (5.55%) Decision-Making
20 34 (5.39%) Manufacturing
21 33 (5.23%) Marketing
21 33 (5.23%) PRINCE2
22 32 (5.07%) DevOps
22 32 (5.07%) Retail
23 29 (4.60%) ITIL
23 29 (4.60%) Coaching

Technical Manager Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 12 (1.90%) Confluence
2 10 (1.58%) Microsoft Exchange
2 10 (1.58%) WordPress
3 7 (1.11%) CMS
4 6 (0.95%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 6 (0.95%) Apache Solr
4 6 (0.95%) Sitecore CMS
4 6 (0.95%) Umbraco
5 4 (0.63%) Drupal
6 3 (0.48%) ColdFusion
7 2 (0.32%) Ethereum
7 2 (0.32%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.16%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.16%) IIS
8 1 (0.16%) SAS
Applications
1 17 (2.69%) AutoCAD
1 17 (2.69%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (0.95%) Microsoft Project
3 3 (0.48%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.48%) MS Visio
3 3 (0.48%) SketchUp
4 1 (0.16%) Revit
4 1 (0.16%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 10 (1.58%) NEC Housing
2 2 (0.32%) Dynamics AX
2 2 (0.32%) Misys Midas
2 2 (0.32%) Raiser’s Edge
2 2 (0.32%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 86 (13.63%) Azure
2 51 (8.08%) Microsoft 365
3 46 (7.29%) SaaS
4 28 (4.44%) Cloud Computing
5 23 (3.65%) AWS
5 23 (3.65%) IaaS
6 21 (3.33%) PaaS
7 13 (2.06%) Entra ID
8 12 (1.90%) Azure DevOps
9 8 (1.27%) Power Platform
10 6 (0.95%) Azure Cognitive Search
10 6 (0.95%) GitHub
10 6 (0.95%) GitHub Actions
11 5 (0.79%) Dynamics 365
12 3 (0.48%) Amazon S3
12 3 (0.48%) GCP
12 3 (0.48%) Power Automate
12 3 (0.48%) PowerApps
12 3 (0.48%) Serverless
13 2 (0.32%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 21 (3.33%) WAN
2 20 (3.17%) LAN
3 18 (2.85%) Firewall
4 17 (2.69%) Wi-Fi
5 8 (1.27%) Network Security
6 7 (1.11%) DNS
7 6 (0.95%) Internet
7 6 (0.95%) SD-WAN
8 5 (0.79%) 4G
8 5 (0.79%) DHCP
8 5 (0.79%) TCP/IP
9 4 (0.63%) VoIP
9 4 (0.63%) VPN
9 4 (0.63%) Wireless
10 3 (0.48%) SAN
11 2 (0.32%) 5G
12 1 (0.16%) Broadband
12 1 (0.16%) Cisco Firepower
12 1 (0.16%) PBX
12 1 (0.16%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (1.11%) SQL Server
2 6 (0.95%) Data Warehouse
2 6 (0.95%) MySQL
3 5 (0.79%) RDBMS
3 5 (0.79%) Relational Database
4 3 (0.48%) EDMS
4 3 (0.48%) Electronic Patient Records
4 3 (0.48%) Tableau
5 2 (0.32%) Big Data
5 2 (0.32%) Metadata
5 2 (0.32%) Power BI
5 2 (0.32%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 1 (0.16%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.16%) Apache Hive
6 1 (0.16%) GIS
6 1 (0.16%) Hadoop
6 1 (0.16%) Impala
6 1 (0.16%) SAP BW
6 1 (0.16%) SAP HANA
6 1 (0.16%) Sqoop
Development Applications
1 16 (2.54%) JIRA
2 6 (0.95%) Git
2 6 (0.95%) PHPUnit
3 3 (0.48%) GCC
4 2 (0.32%) Bitbucket
4 2 (0.32%) GitLab
5 1 (0.16%) Visual Studio
General
1 152 (24.09%) Social Skills
2 103 (16.32%) Finance
3 45 (7.13%) Legal
4 39 (6.18%) Analytical Skills
5 37 (5.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 34 (5.39%) Manufacturing
7 33 (5.23%) Marketing
8 32 (5.07%) Retail
9 27 (4.28%) Presentation Skills
10 21 (3.33%) Telecoms
11 17 (2.69%) Local Government
12 15 (2.38%) Electronics
13 12 (1.90%) Aerospace
13 12 (1.90%) Banking
13 12 (1.90%) French Language
14 10 (1.58%) German Language
14 10 (1.58%) Influencing Skills
14 10 (1.58%) Italian Language
14 10 (1.58%) Portuguese Language
14 10 (1.58%) Spanish Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (3.01%) .NET
2 12 (1.90%) RESTful
3 10 (1.58%) SOAP
4 9 (1.43%) CSS
5 7 (1.11%) HTML
6 6 (0.95%) Doctrine
6 6 (0.95%) HTML5
6 6 (0.95%) jQuery
6 6 (0.95%) Laravel
6 6 (0.95%) Lucene
6 6 (0.95%) Symfony
6 6 (0.95%) Vue
7 3 (0.48%) FHIR
8 2 (0.32%) Kafka
8 2 (0.32%) web3js
9 1 (0.16%) .NET Framework
9 1 (0.16%) Flash
9 1 (0.16%) JSON
9 1 (0.16%) Ruby on Rails
9 1 (0.16%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 27 (4.28%) Onboarding
2 24 (3.80%) Management Information System
3 16 (2.54%) Virtual Team
4 13 (2.06%) IoT
5 12 (1.90%) Data Centre
5 12 (1.90%) NHS
6 11 (1.74%) Self-Motivation
7 9 (1.43%) Enterprise Software
7 9 (1.43%) PKI
7 9 (1.43%) Product Ownership
8 8 (1.27%) Driving Licence
9 7 (1.11%) Private Cloud
10 6 (0.95%) Data Structures
10 6 (0.95%) Security Posture
11 5 (0.79%) CCTV
11 5 (0.79%) CMDB
11 5 (0.79%) Cyber Threat
11 5 (0.79%) Housing Association
12 4 (0.63%) Derivative
12 4 (0.63%) IPTV
Operating Systems
1 42 (6.66%) Windows
2 18 (2.85%) Windows Server
3 14 (2.22%) Linux
4 6 (0.95%) Ubuntu
5 2 (0.32%) Android
5 2 (0.32%) VMS
5 2 (0.32%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.16%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 154 (24.41%) Project Management
2 121 (19.18%) Agile
3 95 (15.06%) Problem-Solving
4 79 (12.52%) Project Delivery
5 74 (11.73%) Continuous Improvement
6 65 (10.30%) Stakeholder Management
7 50 (7.92%) Mentoring
8 46 (7.29%) Cybersecurity
9 42 (6.66%) Roadmaps
10 41 (6.50%) Time Management
11 37 (5.86%) Service Delivery
12 35 (5.55%) Decision-Making
13 33 (5.23%) PRINCE2
14 32 (5.07%) DevOps
15 29 (4.60%) Coaching
15 29 (4.60%) ITIL
16 25 (3.96%) Customer Requirements
17 22 (3.49%) Line Management
18 21 (3.33%) Change Management
18 21 (3.33%) Collaborative Working
Programming Languages
1 17 (2.69%) SQL
2 12 (1.90%) JavaScript
3 11 (1.74%) C#
4 6 (0.95%) PHP
5 4 (0.63%) Python
6 1 (0.16%) C++
6 1 (0.16%) Java
6 1 (0.16%) PowerShell
6 1 (0.16%) Scala
6 1 (0.16%) T-SQL
6 1 (0.16%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 103 (16.32%) Degree
2 28 (4.44%) HND
3 26 (4.12%) Security Cleared
4 24 (3.80%) HNC
5 15 (2.38%) SC Cleared
6 14 (2.22%) Azure Certification
7 11 (1.74%) CCNP
7 11 (1.74%) Cisco Certification
7 11 (1.74%) DBS Check
7 11 (1.74%) ITIL Certification
8 10 (1.58%) PRINCE2 Certification
9 9 (1.43%) CCNA
9 9 (1.43%) Microsoft Certification
10 7 (1.11%) PMI Certification
11 6 (0.95%) PMP
12 5 (0.79%) Computer Science Degree
12 5 (0.79%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
13 4 (0.63%) Master's Degree
13 4 (0.63%) TOGAF Certification
14 3 (0.48%) RIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (3.96%) Cyber Essentials
2 21 (3.33%) GDPR
2 21 (3.33%) SLA
3 20 (3.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 16 (2.54%) QA
5 9 (1.43%) Accessibility
6 8 (1.27%) PMO
7 6 (0.95%) ISO 9001
7 6 (0.95%) NEBOSH
8 5 (0.79%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 4 (0.63%) GMP
9 4 (0.63%) SOC 2
10 3 (0.48%) ISO 22301
11 2 (0.32%) ISO 14001
12 1 (0.16%) Data Quality
12 1 (0.16%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 1 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 1 (0.16%) NCSC
12 1 (0.16%) PCI DSS
12 1 (0.16%) PSD2
System Software
1 19 (3.01%) Active Directory
2 6 (0.95%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.32%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.16%) HDFS
4 1 (0.16%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.16%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 16 (2.54%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (0.32%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (0.16%) Autotask
3 1 (0.16%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.16%) SCCM
Vendors
1 83 (13.15%) Microsoft
2 19 (3.01%) Cisco
3 14 (2.22%) Salesforce
3 14 (2.22%) VMware
4 10 (1.58%) NEC
5 9 (1.43%) Google
6 7 (1.11%) Fortinet
6 7 (1.11%) Sitecore
7 6 (0.95%) Adobe
7 6 (0.95%) Facebook
7 6 (0.95%) Marketo
7 6 (0.95%) SAP
8 5 (0.79%) Apple
8 5 (0.79%) Meraki
8 5 (0.79%) Oracle
9 4 (0.63%) Vectorworks
10 3 (0.48%) Atlassian
10 3 (0.48%) Ciena
11 2 (0.32%) Bloomberg
11 2 (0.32%) Forcepoint